They want to build condos on the Meadowbrooke golf course. I first thought they need really thick shatterproof windows if it's like the golf they play on TV because those balls really go flying.
But then I realized they want to get rid of the golf. Kill golf! Never! Also, a golf course with a silent "e"! Double never! I'm not what you'd call a golf expert but I can shoot the ball through the plastic windmill every time.
On TV a guy was talking about a plan to build over one thousand condos on the course. One man disliked the plan. He said the Meadowbrooke should be "saved" for the "community" and that he's "friends" with the park. I like his use of language, he's full of love. The condo developer hired a woman to say that condos are good for the community. But then they came back to the first guy and he said community again so he won 2-1. I find it nice that he's friends with Meadowbrooke. I always wanted to be friends with nature too! I just get stung by the bees!
So it would be nice to keep this natural part of the island because it's very romantic to be in nature, I keep hearing that nature is romantic. Still I usually like to walk to a park and I would have to drive to this one. I could just watch the Nature Channel instead. They have colourful fish.
The friend of Meadowbrooke thinks it would be a great place for birds to keep living. I really like birds but I have a really good bird feeder right near my desk. Without Meadowbrooke I might even get some of those birds coming to my house. Stop hogging birds.
An Italian man told me that a lot of people like parks near their homes because it's like an extra big front lawn that somebody else has to mow. I think he said that, he was talking Italian.
Building 1,5000 condos on the land would bring in money to the city because the owners would pay a ton in taxes every year and every time a unit is bought or sold the city collects a rather hefty welcome tax.
So with the condos the city would have more money to enact new important programs like mowing people's lawns for free or reinforcing Bill 101. Also building new units would pour money into the economy and the construction industry which would be good but not really good for me and maybe even bad for me because maybe my neighbour would be able to buy a new fancy car or barbecue and I would get depressed because his is nicer than mine.
Also if there were a lot more homes on the island then we would never have another housing crisis. And we need that in July. There's nothing else to worry about in the summer. The Expos aren't on a losing streak anymore. The low vacancy rates like we have now are very good, for me at least, because I like to think of myself as a landlord from time to time. So if you don't build new units then rents stay high and the poor, downtrodden wretched people who don't own their own homes pay a lot of money to landlords, another good reason to save the green space and not build condos. Keep the supply of housing down, it's a great way to keep landowners rich.
So overall, there's a lot of things for friends of parks and friends of communities and communities of friends to consider before taking this important decision..
Actually... it doesn't have an 'e' on the end.
ReplyDeleteYes it does because I gave it one.
ReplyDeleteOne thing for sure, the tax money earned by the condos would most definitely not go towards making law 101 strongerer, because Côte-St-Luc is at the forefront of the fight against Québec independence.
ReplyDeleteNaimard has a detail wrong: Cote St Luc does not want to allow condos. Part of the golf course is in Lachine, a Montreal borough, and that"s where the promotor wants to put them.
ReplyDeletehave you been celebrating 420?
ReplyDeleteNope. I'm unmedicated save for about 3 expressos a day, a single beer (usually a Grolsch which I share) with supper and a stiff drink just before bed. I find marijuana vile and I think it leads to long term mental problems, notably depression, paranoia and occasionally schizophrenia. I guess my drug of choice is human attention. Perhaps marijuana enhances golf though, or nature appreciation, I don't know.
ReplyDeleteFond memories of the Meadowbrook, too. That was the furthest I dared go on my bike when I was a kid…
ReplyDeleteNowadays, it’s just a mere waypoint on my routine 30-40 km rides…
(I guess that if it was in Côte-St-Luc, the place would be paved over with bungalows and Mc-Gill splits…)
Back in the Fifties we too used to ride our bikes along to then-Wentworth Golf Course to watch steam locomotives on passing trains either on the main line from Montreal West to Dorval, or East along the connection from Ballantyne Jct. to either LaSalle via Westminster, or further East to Hampstead, Jean Talon, Bordeaux or Angus Shops and Hochelaga.
ReplyDeleteThe golf course was a wonderful oasis away from the increasing traffic and congestion encroaching daily from downtown.
It still is, TODAY!
CPR then had a small station on the line to Dorval called 'Sortin' and we would sit in it to watch CPR No.1 'The Canadian' roar past on it's trip to the West.
There was usually a Diesel switching in Sortin Yard we could eyeball.
Later, the CNR Diesels for the CN/CP Pool Train would back in from the connection at CN Dorval for their train to Toronto.
When they knocked down the Sortin Station I rescued the Sortin sign and took it to the CRHA railway museum at Delson/St Constant, where it joined the other sign we rescued from Napierville way back when.
Across Sortin Yard, just to the West of the Riviere St Pierre concrete tunnel beneath the tracks was then a operating water stanchion, not far from where the Sortin roundhouse once was, where we could get a drink on the hot, humid Montreal sumnmer days.
Occasionally we could get a ride on one of the locomotives and our day was made!
As we got braver, we then would ride out West along 2/17 to the Dairy Queen in Lachine, and then go stand on the overpass at old Grovehill Station and watch CNR freights.
Not much else to do on summer vacation when you had no money, nor a car.
TV had only 2 channels CBFT and CBMT, besides, no mother would let you stay in on nice days, the option being work of some sort like washing walls or ceilings.
The developers will have their way and Wentworth Golf Course will become another urban slum, as did the old Hampstead Golf Course over by Fleet did back when.
Not to mention the Cartierville Airport.
Ditto, eventually, Turcot Yard.
Money talks, the rest walk, pay taxes, and then die.
Thank You.